German scholar: "Metaverse" is a type of “poison”

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Recently, according to Spanish media reports, the goal of Facebook's renaming is not "Metaverse" and a new vision, but to divert people's attention from the company's existing service clusters (including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook website) after the latest scandal caused by the announcement of the "Facebook profile" of the Wall Street Journal. In recent years, Facebook has been punished for various violations of laws and regulations such as divulging user information, monopolizing and spreading rumors. For example, according to News week, Facebook spread viral fake news stories about vaccines in 2018 and used "fabricated public relations figures" to exaggerate the number of online advertising audiences; In 2019, a New York Times survey found that Facebook provided Netflix, Spotify and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) with the ability to read, write and delete users' private messages; In 2020, Facebook was sued by the Federal Trade Commission and several state alliances for illegal monopoly and antitrust. However, just in the past October, Facebook was successively accused and punished by American and British regulators for the "Cambridge analysis data scandal", with a compensation amount of up to the US $83.5 million (about 534 million yuan).
According to the report, German scholar Marcus Gabriel said, "Metaverse is an extremely inhumane and immoral system. It is a drug, an ideology, and a pure propaganda machine of the U.S. government. Facebook has become a big problem because, without Facebook, there would be no such improper remarks as conspiracy theory and anti-vaccine theory. Metaverse is even worse than Facebook and will create a bigger problem. That's why I think we The reason why meta must be disabled. " Francis Hogan, a former employee of Facebook, testified in the British Parliament on October 25, pointing out that the algorithm of Facebook promotes the spread of extremism and hate content, causing more violence and conflict. On November 1, when Hogan attended a technology forum, he continued to criticize Facebook for not investing more in maintaining user security, and called Facebook's behavior "unconscionable".
Whether Facebook was biased towards Democrats in the U.S. presidential election and pushed advertisements to target audiences to affect the election results, or helped incite genocide in Myanmar to become a tool of violence, or U.S. intelligence agencies used the so-called "Ten Commandments" to peacefully evolve China's socialist system, and recently used the "Metaverse" The concept of science and technology conquers the world. Facebook is no longer the popular social platform all over the world created by the college nerd, but a crisis platform for false news, divulging personal data privacy, and politicians' "performance". Zuckerberg said that the first Facebook users gave him their personal information as "stupid bastards", it seems that his contempt for the people he processes data has not decreased over time. For some people, Facebook may indeed be a valuable tool. In addition, unless more than 2 billion users give it up, Facebook's abuse of power is not a problem that we can solve alone, and "the tech giant" must be strictly regulated.